TRADING SEX
The educational sector of our country has overtime enjoyed its own fair share of gracing the front pages of the tabloids and also featuring in the headlines of our television and radio news.
Nigeria higher institutions of learning are not being praised for the outstanding impartation of knowledge by the tutors, but has instead enjoyed prominence on our tabloids and TV screens due to the immoral acts peddled by lecturers of these higher institutions of learning.
The universities, Polytechnics, Monotechnics and even secondary schools have been plagued with sexual demands made by lecturers and teachers, so as to award good grades to their students, either merited or not. Warming the beds of male and female lecturers by students of higher institutions of learning are not seen as absurd any longer but has become the order of the day in most of our schools.
Lecturers in most of these institutions have moved from their core duty of knowledge impartation to sexually harassing their students in exchange for good grades. It has been argued that some students willingly offer their bodies as sacrifice for good grades, but students have however lend their voices countering this claim though not in its entirety but maintained that most lecturers often demand for it.
This is the sorry state we find our educational sector and which has called for concern and immediate solutions provided.
In respect to this, it was reported by BBC that some lecturers in Nigeria and Ghana universities met with their waterloo when they requested sex in exchange for good grades from BBC undercover reporters who disguised as students of the institutions.
However, this barbaric act should not be encouraged but frowned at in all its entirety by everyone.
We have however concentrated on one aspect of this un-glorified act, thereby closing or eyes to other aspects of sexual harassment acts in some of the vital sector of the economy.
Getting an employment in this country is seen as an herculean task due to and not limited to corruption. it is either you know someone, or you have the money to buy your way in, or better still you pay in kind which is through sex.
Many job seekers, especially the female sex, finds it difficult to get a job today without the employer asking for their body in exchange, especially when the employer is a male. They put these desperate job seekers in a tight corner where they either choose to take the job at the expense of their dignity or lose the job position.
According to Wikipedia, it is recorded that out of every ten (10) job offers by employers, at least six (6) of the job seekers are being asked for sex for the job position. Although most of these acts are not pronounced or reported by the victims; it is high-time we all take out time to look into this aspect of sexual harassment.
Also, many employees have faced the issue of offering their bodies as sacrifice for them to be promoted at their workplace. We also have people who have to sleep with their bosses for salary increase. Many of these individuals do give into this act because of their desperation and the fear of losing their jobs.
In relation to this, some employers propositions a prospective employee to have sex with them before the job can be given to such an individual. It has also been seen that even when an employer is having sexual relationship with his or her employer but decides to quit such relationship, his or her job is always on the line.
The Nigerian government has however in their own capacity rose to tackle this mess in our society by drawing up a bill that will help protect the students on campus and employees in their workplace from sexual predators.
The bill which was originally introduced in 2016 failed to pass both houses of parliament due to its one sided factor which left out the employee in the workplace but focused on the students of higher institutions; it also included a defence of consent clause.
The defence of consent means that the defendant can claim that the victim was not forced to get involved in the act but actually consented to it, which does not make the act a crime.
The house of parliament has however removed the defence of consent from the recent bill and which has actually beamed a ray of hope for Nigerians.
Furthermore, it is of the truth that this act has actually grown out of bound in our society, because it affects virtually all facets of our country. Corruption is not limited to monetary aspect or those in government; once the right things are being done wrong intentionally, it is classified as corruption.
Lecturers are to give the right grade to the deserving students, employers are to give the job to the qualified applicants and not to sabotage the efforts of hardworking Nigerian youths so as to help tackle the "lazy Nigerian youth" syndrome.
Let us all rise to this situation and fight it till it no longer has a place in our economy.
The educational sector of our country has overtime enjoyed its own fair share of gracing the front pages of the tabloids and also featuring in the headlines of our television and radio news.
Nigeria higher institutions of learning are not being praised for the outstanding impartation of knowledge by the tutors, but has instead enjoyed prominence on our tabloids and TV screens due to the immoral acts peddled by lecturers of these higher institutions of learning.
The universities, Polytechnics, Monotechnics and even secondary schools have been plagued with sexual demands made by lecturers and teachers, so as to award good grades to their students, either merited or not. Warming the beds of male and female lecturers by students of higher institutions of learning are not seen as absurd any longer but has become the order of the day in most of our schools.
Lecturers in most of these institutions have moved from their core duty of knowledge impartation to sexually harassing their students in exchange for good grades. It has been argued that some students willingly offer their bodies as sacrifice for good grades, but students have however lend their voices countering this claim though not in its entirety but maintained that most lecturers often demand for it.
This is the sorry state we find our educational sector and which has called for concern and immediate solutions provided.
In respect to this, it was reported by BBC that some lecturers in Nigeria and Ghana universities met with their waterloo when they requested sex in exchange for good grades from BBC undercover reporters who disguised as students of the institutions.
However, this barbaric act should not be encouraged but frowned at in all its entirety by everyone.
We have however concentrated on one aspect of this un-glorified act, thereby closing or eyes to other aspects of sexual harassment acts in some of the vital sector of the economy.
Getting an employment in this country is seen as an herculean task due to and not limited to corruption. it is either you know someone, or you have the money to buy your way in, or better still you pay in kind which is through sex.
Many job seekers, especially the female sex, finds it difficult to get a job today without the employer asking for their body in exchange, especially when the employer is a male. They put these desperate job seekers in a tight corner where they either choose to take the job at the expense of their dignity or lose the job position.
According to Wikipedia, it is recorded that out of every ten (10) job offers by employers, at least six (6) of the job seekers are being asked for sex for the job position. Although most of these acts are not pronounced or reported by the victims; it is high-time we all take out time to look into this aspect of sexual harassment.
Also, many employees have faced the issue of offering their bodies as sacrifice for them to be promoted at their workplace. We also have people who have to sleep with their bosses for salary increase. Many of these individuals do give into this act because of their desperation and the fear of losing their jobs.
In relation to this, some employers propositions a prospective employee to have sex with them before the job can be given to such an individual. It has also been seen that even when an employer is having sexual relationship with his or her employer but decides to quit such relationship, his or her job is always on the line.
The Nigerian government has however in their own capacity rose to tackle this mess in our society by drawing up a bill that will help protect the students on campus and employees in their workplace from sexual predators.
The bill which was originally introduced in 2016 failed to pass both houses of parliament due to its one sided factor which left out the employee in the workplace but focused on the students of higher institutions; it also included a defence of consent clause.
The defence of consent means that the defendant can claim that the victim was not forced to get involved in the act but actually consented to it, which does not make the act a crime.
The house of parliament has however removed the defence of consent from the recent bill and which has actually beamed a ray of hope for Nigerians.
Furthermore, it is of the truth that this act has actually grown out of bound in our society, because it affects virtually all facets of our country. Corruption is not limited to monetary aspect or those in government; once the right things are being done wrong intentionally, it is classified as corruption.
Lecturers are to give the right grade to the deserving students, employers are to give the job to the qualified applicants and not to sabotage the efforts of hardworking Nigerian youths so as to help tackle the "lazy Nigerian youth" syndrome.
Let us all rise to this situation and fight it till it no longer has a place in our economy.
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